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Saum, Minnesota

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1976. It stands in Battle Township. It lies in ZIP code area 56650. The Survey maps it on the Saum quadrangle. It stands 1,197 feet above sea level.

Saum within Beltrami County

On record in Saum

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

285 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 285 fires within 5 miles of Saum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,514 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 70 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning103
Arson/incendiarism70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Misuse of fire by a minor40
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRed Lake AgencyRED LAKE 221
3 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRed Lake AgencyRED LAKE 468
19 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresRed Lake AgencyRED LAKE AGENCY
14 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreRed Lake AgencyRL336
11 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined160 acresRed Lake AgencyRED LAKE 476
10 September 2012Naturalunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
26 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRed Lake AgencyRED LAKE 284

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Beltrami County

Storms near this place

17 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saum in 17 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 10 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018Tornado (EF1)Saum$100,000Reports of this tornado, along with video, were posted to social media, showing contact and an eastward track beginning over open water on Lower Red Lake. The tornado tracked onshore about four miles north-northwest of Battle River, and continued on an intermittent east-northeast track for nearly five miles, crossing Beltrami County 23 about four miles north of Saum. Large poplar and pine trees were snapped or uprooted along the damage path. Peak winds were estimated at 100 mph.
July 2017Tornado (EF1)Saum$100,000This tornado tracked eastward with numerous intermittent touchdowns along its roughly three mile track. Numerous trees were snapped and a couple of grain bins were toppled. Roof panels and walls were blown out of pole sheds and calving sheds were flipped. Insulation and roofing metal were strewn about. Peak winds were estimated at 95 mph.
July 2023HailSaum-Public reports quarter sized hail in Saum.
July 2023HailSaum-Public reports golf ball sized hail via pictures. Size estimated by pictures, time estimated by radar.
August 2022HailSaum-Hail across Northern Cormant Township, up to quarter size.
June 2019HailSaum-Large tree branches were blown down.
July 2018HailSaum-Dime to nickel sized hail fell along with strong winds.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSaum-A Beltrami County deputy reported trees blown down onto county road 106, north of Saum and south of the country road 108 intersection.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindSaum-Poplar and pine trees were snapped to the east-southeast across western Woodrow and western Cormant townships.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindSaum-Several large trees were blown down.
July 2017HailSaum-The hail was mostly pea to marble size.
September 2013HailSaum-Dime to quarter sized hail fell along with very intense lightning.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindSaum-Trees were blown down and a shed was destroyed.
July 2003HailSaum-The hail occurred in the town of Quiring.
July 2001Tornado (F0)Saum-An amateur radio operator reported a brief tornado touchdown.
July 2014HailSaum-no account filed
July 1999HailSaum-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Beltrami County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Shotley5.5 miles7
Quiring6.5 miles9
Otto8.6 miles7
Inez9.4 miles9
Domaas11.8 miles7
Kelliher12.3 miles10
Ponemah13.0 miles8
Langor14.1 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on SaumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22060263The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 654932. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.